tweekster actually his secretary transposed the numbers on the departure time, he was close enough where the doors were shut on him & there was some debate about letting him on after all

Billy West, the guy off Howard Stern who did the voice of "Stimpy" & "Fry" on Futurama was supposed to be sitting next to Seth MacFarlane but he agreed to M.C. this anti-Breast Cancer fundraiser in L.A. & decided to leave a few days earlier to work on his material. He's hosted it ever since.

A really trivial bit of trivia: remember Larry Tate on TV's Bewitched? Darren's boss? His real-life only son was aboard Pan Am 103. Relatives believed that he never got over his son's death and his broken heart caused his own death two years later.